Recent copies of The Lawyer have contained much comment on the challenge for the post of Law Society president. One council member reflected “it could herald the break up of the society” and even the president is quoted as saying it was “disappointing we are going to have the distraction of an election when there […]
ONE fifth of firms surveyed in the The Lawyer’s Top 100 decided to bite the bullet and take the lid off their fee earning figures for their most recent full financial year. The list includes three from Leeds: Dibb Lupton, Hammond Suddards and Booth & Co – never afraid to take the lead. The major […]
*Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, advised by its in-house legal department, has bought the freehold interest in the 21 acre Merton Industrial Park, London SW19 for u23.35m from Electricity Supply Nominees, advised by Eversheds Jaques & Lewis.
Dalgety was advised by Slaughter and May
* Eversheds in Birmingham and Manchester is installing the Radius Costlog cost recovery software system for photocopier and fax machine usage by matter code. In Manchester existing PCs monitor three photocopiers and four faxes, while in Birmingham a notebook PC will be networked to run the software. Costlog works by linking the operator functions and […]
* The Society for Computers & Law is holding two conferences next month in London. The first on 2 May is in conjunction with the EDI Association and is on ‘Electronic commerce and the law 1995’. The second, ‘Strategic use of information technology in a legal practice’, is being held on 10 May. Further details […]
CONVEYANCING clients will be issued with free information booklets alerting them to further uses they may find for their solicitors under a new scheme. The Home Mover Completion Pack, devised by marketing firm Targeted Business Programmes, will be given to clients by around 1,000 law firms taking part in the scheme on completion of conveyancy […]
LEGAL recruitment agency Reuter Simkin is considering criminal charges against rival agency Daniels Bates Partnership over the alleged theft of confidential client-related information. Such charges would follow Reuter Simkin’s successful civil action last month for the return of documents taken out against an ex-employee and the Daniels Bates agency, which allegedly poached her (The Lawyer […]
Law Society presidential candidate Eileen Pembridge and Leigh Day & Co partner Geraldine McCool will address the first meeting of new national group Young Women Lawyers. The group, which has registered an initial membership of more than 300, will stage the event at Parliament Chamber, Middle Temple, at 7pm on 3 May.
THE LAW Society has called for a single civil court to be established as part of a package of measures designed to speed up and cut the cost of litigation. Other proposals include specialist judges and courts, better disclosure and discovery, “plain English” pleadings and a new Standing Commission that would review civil law procedures. […]
THE CROWN Prosecution Service’s ability to review cases before trial could be “significantly” compromised because of plans to halve the numbers of assistant chief crown prosecutors, warns the Association of First Division Civil Servants (FDA). And the Law Society fears that problems, including delays and extra paperwork caused by poorer reviews, will be exacerbated after […]
US lawyers prosecuting Simmon & Simmons partner David Sandy have presented his defence attorneys with records of statements where he admits to having made and kept copies of the Iqbal diaries. Sandy is charged with tampering with evidence relating to the BCCI inquiry. He denies any wrong-doing. In an interview in April 1984 in Abu […]